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The most politically charged piece in the collection, Macro of Fall Leaves with the Color Increased in PhotoShop hints at a post-racial America and hangs purposefully above the water cooler. To this, Dipika wonders aloud: "What if people, like leaves, actually changed color?" With this, Dipika asks us to examine our long-held sensibilities about race, leaves, and gynecology.

A REVIEW OFTHE PHOTOGRAPHY IN MY GYNECOLOGIST'S OFFICE BY KYRIA ABRAHAMS found here ...

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/10/19abrahams.html

I enjoyed it, it's a bit of a spoof, right?

Otherwise if it was serious then, all I have to say is, "With regard to the issue of content, the reductive quality of the figurative-narrative line-space matrix seems very disturbing in light of the distinctive formal juxtapositions."
http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=38227

Andrew

No, no, I don't think it is a spoof at all. Sure it's difficult to enter into the work because of how the mechanical mark-making of the purity of line visually and conceptually activates the larger carcass but McSweeney's also has these other photography related articles ...

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/27ferri.html

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues...otographer.html

Bullshit.

Rob C

My eyes are bleeding.

Was it something I said?

Rob C

It's a good revue! If it were easy I would go see the show based on that review. Unless of course the doctor is a gynecologist or something embarrassing. It is based on what can be seen and reasonably inferred, it specifically describes some of the artwork down to the detail level, it is not excessively self-serving, and most of the sentences make sense. Which puts it heads and shoulders above stuff written by some well-paid reviewers I could name.

^^ I dunno, It looks like something was wounded and maybe died in the making of the following sentence:

Perhaps family is a place outside the home as much as in the hearts of those whose souls are captured via the ephemeral melding of photography as seen "through the lens," so to speak, as it were, gracefully, graciously emerging without fail into a world which promises to lull us into a state where the notions in the mind of our minds eye are transported and even transformed while "clicking" through the matrix where all humanity intersects—the visibility of remembrance?

But didn't you emerge a better human being for having read it? Actually those were just leftover words and sentences. They might have come in handy, but in the final cut weren't needed. Couldn't just throw them away so they were neatly arranged down at the end of the article.

Just like Bob Dylan and/or the Beatles, then...

Unfortunately, can't hold a candle to the artistic declarations on many websites out there - statements presumably penned by the 'artistes' themselves or a close personal friend.

As you might perhaps be vaguely aware, I had a chap set up a website for me which I immediately closed down for various technical reasons, not least of which was the reading of my own 'about/statement', one that was entirely factual but, on the reading, came over - to me - as nothing short of a boast; okay on the monitor and directly from my own computer, but on the web, something else. Perhaps these should all be omitted as counterproductive. If you have to laugh at yourself, what hope of the world at large doing otherwise...

Rob C

> But didn't you emerge a better human being for having read it?

Better than what? The writer uses words like they were a yeast infection. They resemble language but are kind of muddled and gooey. You almost need a speculum to get close enough to the verbiage to understand what the writer’s trying to say.

But Rob brings up an interesting point. WTF is the artist’s statement supposed to achieve? A couple of shows I want to get in require these. While I can write self-adoring platitudes slathered with subject deflections and object disagreements with the best of them, I'm lost as to what song these statements are supposed sing. Anyone know of a good example of an Artist’s statement?

And ph-lee-ze, no Sara Palin quotes!!!

"Hi. I try to take good pictures. I hope you like them. People say some of my pictures are pretty good.

I am an OK person. I have done a few interesting things that I won't bore you with. You can trust that I am not a complete nebbish, however don't set your expectations too high.

Please buy one or more of these pictures so I can quit my day job. It will mean a lot to me and I will think kindly of you. Thanks."

Beyond that, you can say whatever you want until the courts tell you you can't.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues...wichartist.html

Now that inspires me!

I think that should I ever get round to doing an Artist Statement, it will look something like that.

Andrew

I kind of like that one, except that it seems kind of understated. After all, I always strivd to be a complete nebbish and kind of a schlump too. Are those good things for an artist?

So really are these statements supposed to be about hoisting yerself on yer own petard? A personal wall of humility?

Do you place it next to the price list or far-far away??

Op cit:

The yeast, integral in my artistic process, illustrates the rise and dominance of man. He covers and masks his animal core, but my work makes visible the inescapable human dichotomy between doughy brain and sliced-protein gut.

LOL Thanks for the hand off. Can i pick ‘em or what!?!

So, by extension, shtick is an acceptable artist’s statement….

Hmmmm The, uh, wide divergence in representative modus operandi is a gift of fungible opportunity for synergy, synthesis, dangling participles and especially run-on sentences….

Since I've threadjacked this schooner and sent it into the rocks it is perhaps fitting to add that I have successfully cobbled together a less than 100 word description which covered the bones of the topic. I could have reduced it to a haiku but that might have been over the top.....or is it under the waves? Eh, at least it’s not yeasty.

Now where is that life boat. The schooner appears to be taking on water…

No article that includes the words "I haven't worked extensively in roast beef—I'm more experienced in turkey and ham" can fail to raise a smile.

Jeremy